Dante Gabriel Rossetti Quotes

Broken Music

The mother will not turn, who thinks she hearsHer nursling's speech first grow articulate;But breathless with averted eyes elateShe sits, with open lips and open ears,That it may call her twice. 'Mid doubts and fearsThus oft my soul has hearkened; till the song,A central moan for days, at length found tongue,And the sweet music welled and the sweet tears.